The Study Of Object-chanting Fu By Zhou Lvjing

Zhou Lvjing is an important writer in the late Ming Dynasty.He has written 414 Object-chanting Fu.Introducing the writing background can help us to better understand his works.On the one hand,the decline of the Ming Dynasty caused the whole country in a disorder condition,which made many educational people felt a sense of confusion;on the other hand,based to the prosperity of commercial economy,the culture became commercialized and people are addicted to pursuing a style of leisure life.Besides,the educational fields has raised two written styles: “Chonggu” and “Shangzhen”.Apart from those reasons,Zhou Lvjing has a highly confidence to himself,and his passion to write Object-chanting Fu which made him created a large number of Object-chanting Fu.According to main contents,Zhou Lvjing's Object-chanting Fu cover a wide range of plants,animals,utensils and other objects.Apart from show the feeling by depict things' taste,smell,vision,he also express his emotions and attitudes through his works.For example,he used unique plants to stand for women's noble personality,and people's grief and underappreciated feelings.And used symbolic animals to express his open-minded attitude toward life.As for the Utensils Fu,he used it to appeal to cherish the pursuit of pleasure that implements moral perfection.In his other kinds of Fu,there are indicated by images of introspection of morality,indifferent freely self-cultivation,with people's livelihood situation by images to express the scheming.In the art aspects,the writing structure are very clear.From the perspective of the relationship between “object” and “subject”,Zhou's works used to relieve his bad feelings by depict object's shape.The stylistic feature is very unique,which has the tendency of theatrical character.The number of words are less than 200.Most of his works have flexible writing style except a small number of his works.The language of Object-chanting Fu are very lively and full of rhythm.Zhou keep his eye on art features and he is good at metaphor,antithesis,and allusions.In a summary,the value of Zhou's works is for more than its defects.As the topic broaden,secularized,his works' main theme are tend to express his mood,which promotes the development of Object-chanting Fu.There are many people choose typical fragment to imitate during the creation process,so many works are just from imitation.But,there are also many wonderful purified Object-chanting Fu were created.